I wonder if there is room for a Digital Markets Act style intervention on data centre XC pricing, 150 EUR/m for a static cable is hardly proportional.
erikk@chaos.social
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benjojo
replied 19 Mar 2024 11:27 +0000
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erincandescent@akko...
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benjojo
replied 19 Mar 2024 11:38 +0000
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@erincandescent I "love" that people in some Equinix regions are doing DWDM between racks because it's cheaper
edward@social.sphero..
replied 19 Mar 2024 11:48 +0000
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@benjojo or possibly even just normal competition regulations. There’s been a lot of consolidation allowed through mergers and acquisitions which has given a handful of very large companies significant market power and generally they’re the ones charging ludicrous cross connects fees.
I’d like to see regulators like the UK’s CMA and whatever the EU equivalent is take a look at the biggest players in the datacentre market by square foot and/or megawatts. Maybe network density too?
benjojo
replied 19 Mar 2024 11:55 +0000
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@edward mm, I actually think the network competition is quite healthy in the UK at least, but we are at the point where it's common (for the smaller networks) that the cable to your supplier is as much as the actual bandwidth you are buying from them...
beasts@social.mythic..
replied 19 Mar 2024 14:28 +0000
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@benjojo ... in a patch panel pre-wired to their meet me room that you had to buy up front. Our most recent quote for a panel with six fibre pairs was only four digits long which we thought was rather pleasing compared to normal.
benjojo
replied 19 Mar 2024 14:45 +0000
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@beasts ah yes, not satisfied on charging for static wires, they figured out how to charge us for cables to connect future cables, but you must buy those ones ahead of time.
beasts@social.mythic..
replied 19 Mar 2024 16:16 +0000
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@benjojo our favourite was a data centre charging for a cross connect in a data centre they'd sold to someone else. Since they had no mechanism to cancel it they were unable to stop billing for it!
benjojo
replied 20 Mar 2024 13:20 +0000
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I deny all accusations that I have any relation to Hindenburg Research: https://hindenburgresearch.com/equinix/
beasts@social.mythic..
replied 20 Mar 2024 13:33 +0000
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@benjojo we turned out off last internet transit in Equinix LD8 yesterday as part of HEXit. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2023/09/27/hex-it/
bencc@morehammer.uk
replied 20 Mar 2024 14:05 +0000
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benjojo
replied 20 Mar 2024 14:08 +0000
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